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 49 THI-: 1SDUS ANTIQUARY. [POICARY, 17", often hcen known (0 rule arrow tbo co cm invisible hnrsea, or gtido over marshy lands in the shape of a wandering flickering li 'td jungly ground nl the foot of luTIs, and was told what" it waa. It moved Along in ft man tier rambling tbo Uight of an insect. In Mauti, XII. 71. it u rind that ft HMhman who omit* his duty ia changed into a demon Ulkamukha, or with n mouth Eke n Hr©» brand, who devoora what hua been van There* aim . robe nuliiinsj ■■ beJiff analogous to that wbicb aaancinteti the Will-o'-tliL-Wbtp with the tricksy goblin, 'that shrewd and knurish sprite called, Robin fellow/ who «howii hi* lantern fa " Mkk*! nifbt "wiijhUw »■>. la&tfliiuff at thuir haxiiu" ,1 practical niin-v Rfpoaa » to havo prevailed only in Kn gland. Only there •.! E' L the tniscmef-loving Pock with bin wispy ti w d to lure tbo bahittHl wanderer into pool*, and tags. 11 Ami, kadine M. m*k*'» m» Im ntmy Ami wiwn wi> utii'k iu uisii' and clay lit' ik'th, with luutflitur Iruvn ua." flnt these nn itenOU night-fire* bare always been associated with tomb* and Use dead. LD ScontUnnrmn legends tha KppuJchrea of tin* In-rovy emit a kind of lambri vhich waa always visible nt night, ami served to guard the ashes of thn dead; it was called Hunyu I I. the sepulchral tiro. Ir maybe a survival or tln'h bd ■ ■' thai mi ignutb d Hw cnarom of a ' cA«- --• lying-in-state after death of luyulund very distinguished personages, when the darkened chamber ib illuminated bv a in all i- of t spars niitl Hamheanx. Thronghoul .Kust the U ISfl place bghb. in Utile re. cesses maid '■• tomfaoi I enstatn said to be also followed by same of tin} wild mrmntain tribes. Such beliefs anil usage* would tund to rnnnact stranga firea seen liy night wifli dt ghosts, and tlio dead. ACCOUNT Off KALHAT, IN 8. E. ARABIA. BY 1CAJOE S. B. U1LK5, POLITICAL "iASKAT. to the south- east of fid by some. Pliny, liawerer, whoso tmowlodgo About eighty Maakai h tbe ancient city of K a 1 h A t » « though long aincc fallen t^ruina a in 1 1 i' rted,w»a r|y the moat important acaport tawi "I Oman, ami the priiicijtfil «'inporinm of her eora- msree. According to tbetiTiditinnaofthe Arab*, K a I h a t waa partially destroyed by fanhftiuike about, fonT conturie^ ago, anil fn^tu this time probably commenced its rapid decadence, other consos, Budl aa the filling np of the h*v«n or creek* and r I • ' M a » k A t in ' of the Purliigaese, completed its extinction as a eomroercia! mibaepbL K ftl h At can lay claim to high anli<|tiiij, nnd is pethapw one of the iiioki nnrirnt Kcujifii-tn of Arubia In I hi' /'•/•,'.'' >. ' it i» citUed K a 1 a i o»i and Appears n* 8 place of considerable hn a its naino rijap of ibhiijil^ now known as the J > ■• • y m a n i y a h wrronp, aboul one hundred niiicft further up the QnH of OmAn. Pliny valle it A kiln, but with rcgnfd In Bid Ed •■■• afiration of name WW OonlttsMOi Oxista ami mentaton an»l geegmphetm. Strain* confi ed A h i I ik with O k li 1 i R t a town at the Straits umleb, and in this ho has been follow- of the eastern gidd of Arabia was superior to nud Ptolemy, mentions k e 1 i a separately and seems to place A k i I a on the east side; and bulb Ihiniouiu uud Fonder, fol- .' this artangeuient, have lucnted it on the Om/iti coast, though Korsirr is t 1 think, tnis- takun when hi it wirh J-]] Cflti (fmi- perly K I V e i - ), 1 1 ipol ten miles aouth-eaRt oi ^Im-kat, I haro no doubt myaelf ab A k i 1 a being identical with K a I h t> t , f be ftimply ineoTpoTatr«l with the article nl. point on thr coast nearly so b(e t and, bem^Ca the similarity of name, it iff confirmed by Pliny's account of the l which agrees well with our knowledge of Kal - He says: — - We fhi'ii eoi lic to the Si baii, a nation of BkoitHoii with uumrrouR iplandn, and the cily otAkila, wli nd from which pOISOB I. for India." Now it tlmf Kal h at wasmri-eiitiirieatlicgrcatrcndci- toui for trading wnub between India and the IVnsian tJulf j and aa regard* the people, it is to led, though perhaps it nifty be merely a dpnets that the few inhabi tanta of K a Ih £ t